Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 07045b0d2bc85419…

MALICIOUS

PDF

94.8 KB Created: 2021-09-18 03:50:14 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-27
MD5: 8a971b9b455a5641f1a92b99debcd19a SHA-1: bacc5046028f7a7cb7de965773f969e514b89778 SHA-256: 07045b0d2bc854198ef98cccf942c1f162961ede2dba49dedf87f2adc86f7d59
126 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample was detected as malicious by ML classifiers and ClamAV, indicating a high likelihood of malicious intent. It contains numerous embedded URLs, many of which point to PDF files on various domains, suggesting a link farm or redirection mechanism. The PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM heuristic further supports this, indicating a strategy to distribute links across disposable hosting. While no scripts were explicitly extracted, the nature of the heuristics and the embedded URLs suggest the PDF is designed to redirect users to potentially harmful content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9965

Heuristics 5

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://polenes.cl/userfiles/file/botevuratuz.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://wxmx.cn/upload/ckimg/files/202109110230369711.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://idd.no/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jalalugukisapebuvepitav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://shiksha24.com/userfiles/files/15822635844.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://wcdt.co.th/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/7ft8u3k85o2f1auhk5f2jqifk4/82110123401.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vita24h.com/uploads/userfiles/file/13499395424.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://thevale.us/userimages/zodujuri.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tuecpa.com/file_media/file_image/file/ponujow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://dorapeyzaj.com/userfiles/file/nigekidibepulupa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://unsersohn.ch/images/file/kofawuwibitigiwif.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://baodieptailor.com/uploads/2021-09-17/images/files/27440626607.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.binghan.my/userfiles/file/warolirabozoniluf.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.verneteco.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/63553614406.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sgpeo.pl/users/file/nagugugadazuxu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://markasib.ru/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77471302539.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.verimevzabavu.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/24237342803.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://monyetjoget.com/contents/files/56272648156.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.vasutaszeneiskola.hu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/jofexu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://haustechnik-hagenauer.at/kipabor.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://sinners-party.de/media/file/33152086797.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://expomediainc.com/upload/file/dujuxulupuwadaz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vjlabor.pitscovn.com/uploads/Upload/files/mexunekofemalitixokug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://otevrel.eu/ckfinder/userfiles/files/61898878464.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://apexnepaltravel.com/userfiles/file/xisezififawonavug.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Uplcv/~3/DOqCt-cVA4I/uplcv?utm_term=guitar+caged+system+exercises+pdfPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00010b0f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x10B0F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off00012321.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x12321 18680 bytes
SHA-256: ff60e6a05ec61e0b5a97260000b93d8e7af59f6709c24917eb9c8a70dad982ae
font_02_sfnt_off00015381.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15381 11048 bytes
SHA-256: 98fb0e1996e3de5587409b11fa1340c4060d0470b0e63edd35c4f42d323fada3